This club is "dedicated" to Jody Carver. Jody's input will be as much as he wants. This man is a wealth of information relating to Fender and non-pedal steel guitars. The actual name is Jody Carver's "Fender Stringmaster Club."

I hope Jody and everyone else participates. I think you may have noticed that there are no dues to pay.

I will put on record that Jody Carver is in no way responsible for this club. If he does not want his name associated with this club I am sure we will honor his request.

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I think you may have noticed that there are no dues to pay.

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Dang! Now you tell me! I already sent it in.

Dang! Now you tell me! I already sent it in.

Paul Ostby: Seattle, WA

Dan Heend: Newark, NJ

Basil Henriques: West Midlands, UK

You should have received the newsletter.

And yes, in a message from the "Prince of Tweed"
A-ok in his book.

Thank you.

[This message was edited by Gary Boyett on 16 January 2005 at 06:48 PM.]

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I dont know what half

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Jody, you can sew this on your Levis . .

[This message was edited by Rick Alexander on 17 January 2005 at 03:34 AM.]

Basil has offered to host the Fender Stringmaster Club web-site. I think it would be a great idea!

To all Members:
What do you want to see on this site!

I know we need a humor section for Howard R.

Give Basil some ideas and I'm sure he can go from there.

Keep the membership coming. Email me with the request and I will get you on the list.

NO, I will never do anything with your email address except send you club stuff.

I still need some people to write an article on several different issues.

Tunings- discuss variations, etc.
Tablature- One song per issue?
History- Fender and other steels
Tips & Tricks- How did he do that?

If you want to participate, please let me know.

For now, GO PRACTICE!

Gary

It won't happen again,,,,, today.

[This message was edited by Gary Boyett on 17 January 2005 at 04:13 PM.]

Ralph was a partner in a firm that was producing accordians. His accordian was called the Lesman Accordio Organ. It was as close as sounding to a Hammond as you could get. Fender sales had distributed the Lesman for a few years, but problems with manufacturing changes caused Fender to abandon the idea.Ralph Studemann was Hanzels partner in the Lesmann company. Al Marcus may have some additional information on this as Lesmann was located in Michigan during those early days. If Al sees this he may have a comment regarding this.

Fender early on had distributed the Hayes Band Instruments as well. Sax Trumpet Clarinet etc. That too was dropped when Fender made its mark in the guitar and amp market.

The name Hayes was taken from a Fender rep of the pioneers of Fender as he was a fine Trumpet player. Charlie was killed in an auto accident not far from the orginal Fender plant in Fullerton Calif.

AS for Al Kelly? I never really knew much about him only that he was popular on the East Coast playing steel with a few groups of names I cant recall.He I beleive was from out of Ohio somewhere.

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[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 17 January 2005 at 12:09 PM.]

Ben Rubright
Port Charlotte, FL

but, whatever you want to call it is ok with me.

[This message was edited by Rick Alexander on 18 January 2005 at 02:43 AM.]

Just visited your web site & wanted to let you know...... it's really nice, cool photos of your group and the history. Your steel sound byte is super!!

Made my day, it's snowing in NJ as I send this out ......TX
rgds,
Ron

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. I have been out of town.
The JCFSGC that Rick talked about sounds fine too. It's all good

We are now up to 26 members throughout the world!!!

Rick, better get some more chairs!!!

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JCFSC member since 2005
D-8 Stringmaster
fender Dual Pro

1948 Fender Dual Professional
1950 Fender Deluxe 8
1950 Fender Pro Amp
1951 Fender Custom
1953 Fender Dual Professional
1954 Fender Dual Professional
1955 Fender Stringmaster (D-8, 24.5")
1955 Fender Stringmaster (D-8, 22.5")
1958 Fender 400
1962 Fender Super Amp
1962 Fender Musicmaster
1963 Fenber Volume/Tone pedal
1965 Fender Jaguar

[This message was edited by Chris Scruggs on 20 January 2005 at 08:22 PM.]

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We are now up to 26 members throughout the world!!!

Rick, better get some more chairs!!

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It's already SRO! (Steelin' Room Only)

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Chris, those are some impressive qualifications . .

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Rick Alexander
57 Fender Stringmaster T8, 49 Fender Custom, 69 Strat, Rickenbacker BD6, National New Yorker
Music Man, Fender & Peavey Amps

Let's see, Chris has 13 Fabulus Fender's. They must be locked up in Ft. Knox...that's a lot of "oldies but goldies".

Just for fun, how many Fender's do we have altogether, in the enrollment group? I hope Chris is enrolled!!!

Fender, take note, we're coming at ya...Soooooon TX
rgds,
Ron

1952 Fender Dual Eight Professional
blonde
1954 Fender Triple Stringmaster 26" scale, blonde
1957 Fender 1000 nine pedals, polished frame, blonde, double eight
(I think this is a 1957, could be later)

[This message was edited by Rick Collins on 20 January 2005 at 10:48 PM.]

Plus this One-Of-A-Kind TwoTone 5 Neck Stringmaster that was custom made for the one and only S t r e t c h Armstrong!

[This message was edited by Rick Alexander on 21 January 2005 at 12:04 AM.]

1950's Quad 24 1/2
1960's Quad 24 1/2
1963 T8 22 1/2
1950's D8 26
1960's D8 22 1/2
late 1970's D8 24 1/2 ebony
1960's D6 24 1/2
1970's D6 24 1/2
1970's or late 60's S8 22 1/2

Pedals

1000
Student S10 3&1
Artist S10 3$4
PS 210 5&4

1960 Mandocaster
1970's Mandocaster

I have what I think is a Champ - tuner pan w white tuning knobs, white pick up cover, rectangular fret markers, chrome knobs, walnut finish, 3 legs, Fender in script and pat. pending on the tuner pan.

I have T8 Custom that I picked up off ebay some years back. The body is cracked in a couple of places.

A Champ with legs is a Studio Deluxe. Other than that it's the exact same guitar.